Frozen Shoulder - any other sufferers?

[Mowgli1970]

I've been suffering from a frozen shoulder (posh name - adhesive capulitis!) for a year now. I've had physio, seen a consultant, had injections to loosen it, had air blown into the joint to move it all to no avail. I also see a chiropractor once a month and have acupuncture with him too! All this costs me a * fortune and hasn't worked! The next choice would be to go for surgery. Has anyone had this surgery? Can you tell me what it entails (good and bad!)
Thanks

accupunture worked for my daughter.one sesion

I have had frozen shoulder and you have all my sympathy !
From what I know this condition takes a couple of years to improve ,isn't 12 months rather early to be considering surgery ?

Surgery is a drastic option, but I'm in a lot of pain. I can't sleep, simple chores like changing the bedding take ages as I have to do it so slowly and then rest my arm. It really is debilitating. I can't raise my arm above my head or behind my back so getting dressed is hard too. I'm feeling very fed up at the moment (can you tell?!) and so I'm looking into all possibilities.

Hi Mowgli, I had shoulder surgery about 4 weeks ago. This was intended to be a subacromial decompression to treat subacromial impingement which I had been suffering from for around 8 months. Injections and physio had had no effect so it was felt surgery was my only option.
However, when the surgeon actually got inside my shoulder, he discovered that I had frozen shoulder as well.

Four weeks on I feel like I have a different shoulder! Before the op I couldn't lift my arm more than about 30 degrees out to the side and, as you say, household chores and ordinary things like getting dressed were really difficult. But now I have full movement in the arm/shoulder - there is still some soreness at the extremity of movement, but that is to be expected after just 4 weeks and I am doing daily exercises which is helping with this.

In summary, my experience of surgery has been a highly positive one and if your consultant is suggesting your only option left is surgery, then I would go for it.

Mowgli ,yes that describes a frozen shoulder .
I couldn't raise a fork to my mouth without pain ,wipe my bottom ,comb my hair ,do up my bra - all agony .
It's a horrible condition .

Cookie Monster - that sounds like heaven! Being able to move again without pain sounds like such a simple goal doesn't it? It doesn't help that people think frozen shoulder is the same as a pulled muscle and can't understand why I cry out in pain when my arm is jogged or I overstretch. I'm sure they think I'm making it up!
Violetqueen - how long did your frozen shoulder take to heal? Did you have any treatment/physio or did you let things take their course?

I had a couple of sessions of physio on nat health .
Physio said I needed to come weekly ,but only able to offer monthly .
It did eventually get better ( tho I don't have 100% movement ) ,I think 2 years .
Oh I so sympathise about jogging ,my cats would bring a mouse in ,I'd jump and be beside myself in pain .

My mum suffered very badly from this and had Physio. They offered her a new treatment that involved using large electronic magnets (!?). She was incredibly dubious about this but after a few sessions she felt a real improvement. May be worth researching?